Listen To Your New Broadcasting Station – Your Latino Pulse- J.F. Kennedy Blvd – Union City, NJ – © Frank H. Jump
J.F. Kennedy Blvd – Union City, NJ – © Frank H. Jump
VOTE! Early Election Turn-out in Flatbush Produces Long Lines & Hope
© Frank H. Jump
After arriving at my polling place at 6:15AM on P.S. 269 on Nostrand & Newkirk Avenues, I realized I should have set my alarm clock for an earlier time (and should NOT have played the snooze button twice) because the line stretched around the block all the way past New York Avenue. Talk was hopeful on the line but my hopes were dashed as I got to my election district’s line since the machine was inoperable and I had to fill out a paper ballot. Something about pulling the handle across, clicking the keys and pulling the handle back again that is so aurally and physically satisfying. Didn’t need to videotape this so I photographed it.
Long lines on election day - Nostrand Avenue - Flatbush - © Frank H. Jump
Line to polling place on Nostrand Avenue stretching around the block, around the park, and past New York Avenue © Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump
Writing On The Wall – Passikoff – link to PDF of review
© Ben Passikoff
Here is a kid that did what I should have done years ago – SELF-PUBLISH! I was pleased to see my website in his bibliography.
Hotel Sterling – Matinees – Wilkes-Barre, PA
Matinees – Hotel Sterling – Wilkes-Barre, PA – © Vincenzo Aiosa
Google Books – © Elena Castrignano
This sign was taken on the side of the abandoned Hotel Sterling on Market & River Streets and is possibly a remnant of Sylvester Poli’s Theatre. See Michael Johnnson’s Apertome for some other great shots of Wilkes-Barre and NEPA.
Writing on the Wall – Campus Progress dot org – Book Review
A new academic book on graffiti offers a far too uncritical look at the art form.
By Ben Adler
October 29, 2008
911 Graffiti Blog
A New York Transit Authority Number 1 subway car bearing the graffiti tag “Dani.” (AP Photo/NYPD)
© Frank H. Jump
In his review of Graffiti Lives: Beyond the Tag in New York’s Urban Underground by Gregory Snyder, a sociologist and anthropologist at Baruch College in New York City – Adler asks:
So rather than attempting that, I wish that Snyder had devoted some space and energy to seriously examining questions he should have tackled: Can graffiti be harnessed as a force for social change? Do political pieces like this one [photo above] awaken the minds of the disengaged?
